Just want to share this discovery with you all. We all know blackthorn is a nasty piece of work and you should seek medical attention if you get a splinter. I didn’t realise how bad it could be. My neighbour got a splinter in her finger last week. Didn’t do anything about it straight away. Sunday her finger was massive. She finally went to A&E Monday. They sent her straight to Glasgow hospital and she was in surgery last night. Not sure what they did. Apparently as the blackthorn brakes down it releases hydrogen cyanide.

Let’s have a little guessing game   . 

What’s this do?

   

Apologies if we already have a thread!

What are you growing, when are you planting? (I know Spec already has an experiment underway)

Ladies, have you seen the Sarah Raven pinafore? Only £64.95 to wear something that makes you look like you're in a Victorian orphanage!! 
https://www.sarahraven.com/gardening-kit...nafore.htm

Mine's an old pair of jeans and a weatherbeaten Cornish Fishing smock that I've had for about 50 years, literally!! Cheap clogs unless I'm digging out brambles when its steel toe capped rigger boots. Brambles can be quite heavy, you know.

Gentleman, if you wear a pinafore, there's no need to be embarrassed. We're all friends here (mostly).

Apologies I may have asked this before!

So how does the quote option actually work, I click on it but nothing seems to happen?

I have 5 compost bins - I really I would like those big bays you see on the TV  in my dreams!

Anyway, I also pay £40 a year for a garden bin - I can put any garden waste in this. I generally put in most weeds that I feel will start to regrow in my bin.

So today I weeded around a few of my fruit trees  lots of stuff that filled up my bin! I'm too worried to put in couch grass, ground elder and nettles, dandelions. Am I being too fussy? Do you compost it all?

I've been reading Eliot Coleman's "Four seasons harvest" - he lives in Maine, USA and has heavy winter snowfall.
When researching what plants to grow, he looked at his latitude (44 degrees N) and realised that areas of France were also on the same latitude - so he went there to see what they grow in winter and how they did it. 
I don't have an ology in Geography so had to turn to Wikipedia for my position. The 50th Parallel skims the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, Cardiff is between the 51st & 52nd parallel, as is London. 
The 52nd Parallel passes through a lot of places that sound very cold to me - like Russia, Mongolia, Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_parallel_north

The 53rd Parallel touches Snowdonia, Stoke on Trent and Nottingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_parallel_north
54th Harrogate
55th Gretna and Newcastle upon Tyne
56th Just North of Edinburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_parallel_north
57th Hebrides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_parallel_north 
58th Isles of Lewis & Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58th_parallel_north
59th Orkney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_parallel_north
60th Shetland Isles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parallel_north

Have a look and see where you sit! Any surprises??

If you want to watch some gardening videos and learn some Welsh at the same time watch Adam in the Garden/Adam yn yr Ardd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhpGqZZibo
I learnt Welsh in school and have some basic knowledge but I've just found these youtube videos. Only watched one (Lesson 3) but I've learnt/remembered so much already. 
Adam also has gardening videos that are good.

Mine’s nearly ready to start harvesting     . How’s yours doing?

   

Cobbled a temporary coldframe together today.

Cardboard, pallet collar, 4 GH panes, a brick, and some scaffold netting. The netting is just for overnight, not sure if it will help.

The glass will need another clean.